Quotes About Roles

I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with such interesting, unique, and completely separate characters.

I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?

Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give up on people. For God's sake, look at me.

Never think you're too good for a role, and never take yourself too seriously.

I like to go from film to film, meeting new people and playing new roles. Because actors are like children: They want to play, and I like to play.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

I would always worry that I was only going to play the girl next door or the cute girlfriend. But I've been really lucky that all my roles have been very intense and completely different kinds of characters.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

My guess is that people haven't a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play .

Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer!

There are three roles one can play as a homosexual: one involving being the daddy to someone who is the son, another, therefore, being the sonny to that pop, the third involving looking for yourself in someone approximately identical to you.

Leadership boards and staff members who fill executive roles tend to make two mistakes when it comes to policy: (1) they have too many policies, and (2) they treat every policy as if it were a law from God himself.

In the OT the divine Spirit is typically manifested as a special power from "God" given to individuals to enable them for particular tasks or roles.

this authority assigned to Jesus to dispense or send the Spirit is particularly important in reflecting what he calls a "divine christology," Jesus understood as in some real sense participating in the authority and roles of "God.

Over the years, we have invested much in our public persona: the self we developed during our teens and young adult years that reflects our own hopes of who we wanted to become. This is the self that developed from the expectations of others, the self that got confused with our "roles.

Regardless of age, Connection types, at some level, often feel like frightened children in an adult world. Because of their inadequate sense of self, they often try to anchor themselves in their roles as scientist, judge, doctor, father, mother, etc.